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Greece gets go-ahead for gas pipeline

The European Commission announced Thursday that Greek tax incentives granted to the Trans Adriatic Pipeline gas project are compatible with EU state aid rules. The pipeline will bring gas from Azerbaijan through Turkey, Greece and Albania to Italy and is part of the so-called Southern Gas Corridor.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.